Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 15:04:15 +0900 From: "Akinori -Aki- MUSHA" <knu@idaemons.org> To: kris@FreeBSD.org Cc: obrien@NUXI.com, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "# Version required:" Message-ID: <86puu1prj4.wl@daemon.local.idaemons.org> In-Reply-To: In your message of "Sat, 12 Feb 2000 18:10:25 -0800 (PST)" <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002121805560.88574-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <20000212180205.A42274@dragon.nuxi.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002121805560.88574-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Hi,
At Sat, 12 Feb 2000 18:10:25 -0800 (PST),
Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> Hmm..having a "version number" variable would be very useful as a
> precursor to an automatic 'make upgrade' target which could rebuild ports
> and dependencies as needed (you'd also need a PORTS_VERSION variable for
> when ports are patched/changed). In the current place in the comments it's
> useless and probably always has been, but maybe instead of just removing
> it we should move it to a VERSION variable in the makefile body.
Yes, and NetBSD's already done it. I'm looking into NetBSD's
packages system and bsd.pkg.mk to make a plan to merge their _big_
efforts back into FreeBSD. Yesterday I happened to make contact with
a NetBSD developer who's in charge of the system and was told what
they'd made over ours.
They have added upgrading mechanism, version comparison mechanism,
wildcard matching in depend's and much more. So much to learn.
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